Emerging Leaders Scholarship

  • Organisation: Ministry for Primary Industries
  • Grant Number: L17012
  • Grant Amount: $20,462

The Primary Industries Emerging Leaders Scholarship is jointly sponsored by MPI and AGMARDT. The scholarship recognises the nominees that demonstrate significant potential to make a difference as a senior leader in the primary industries.

The scholarship winners are funded to attend the Te Hono Stanford Bootcamp, where they engage with current industry leaders and contribute to discussions about the future of the primary industries.

The 2017 winners were Julia Jones (KPMG) and Jason Te Brake (Miraka).

We are grateful for the assistance the AGMARDT Grant provided. It has allowed Freshco to direct sales and manage our own destinies in each market enabling us to extract more value from the supply chain to the consumer.

John Mangan / Director, Freshco

AGMARDT supports and enables. Projects and people benefit from funding; New Zealand benefits from development of ideas, technologies, approaches and leadership. In particular, the trust facilitates information dissemination: AGMARDT is the catalyst for ripples that spread through the primary sector.

Dr Jacqueline Rowarth /

AGMARDT's support of Texus in the above process tangibly accelerated the development of the above essential activities and testing of market entry strategy, while also exposing Texus management to cutting-edge thought leadership around market shaping and the levers that can be applied to scope and facilitate such shaping.

Nick Davenport / CEO, Texus Fibre Industry Leader Scholarship Winner

The support from AGMARDT has enabled us to gain greater insights into farmer behaviour across all sectors and which will assist accelerated uptake of the livestock exchange and enhance market opportunities for all farmers.

Jason Roebuck / Managing Director, Stock-X Limited